{"id":9305,"date":"2012-10-08T11:05:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T11:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/08\/why-is-the-gore-lane-so-called\/"},"modified":"2012-10-08T11:05:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T11:05:15","slug":"why-is-the-gore-lane-so-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/08\/why-is-the-gore-lane-so-called\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the Gore Lane So-Called?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c017c32663507970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gore Lane\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c017c32663507970b\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c017c32663507970b-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Gore Lane\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">See the triangle-like piece of roadway where the routes diverge?&#0160; That&#39;s called the gore lane.&#0160; Gore lanes are also found near on ramps and exit ramps. Driving across&#0160;such a lane&#0160;is a moving violation.&#0160;&#0160;The gore lane&#0160;is not, strictly, a lane, nor is it named after Al <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Bore<\/span> Gore.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">This scintillating topic came up in conversation with Peter L. yesterday morning after we had done with Thomas Nagel&#39;s <em>Mind and Cosmos<\/em>.&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;Peter maintained that the &#39;lane&#39; was so-called because of one Officer Gore, a motorcycle cop who supposedly had been killed in a gore lane near an entry ramp to a freeway.&#0160; But I learned this morning that the noun &#39;gore&#39; has among it meanings,&#0160;&quot;a small usually triangular piece of land.&quot;&#0160; This leads me to suspect that Peter&#39;s explanation is a bit of urban folklore.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the triangle-like piece of roadway where the routes diverge?&#0160; That&#39;s called the gore lane.&#0160; Gore lanes are also found near on ramps and exit ramps. Driving across&#0160;such a lane&#0160;is a moving violation.&#0160;&#0160;The gore lane&#0160;is not, strictly, a lane, nor is it named after Al Bore Gore.&#0160; This scintillating topic came up in conversation with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/08\/why-is-the-gore-lane-so-called\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is the Gore Lane So-Called?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}